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Development and Planning of Curriculum and Assessment II/Module IV Technology Integration

Spring 2013 - EDU584/EDU580 (Module IV) Cohort 5 - University of Maine Farmington
~~A Work in Progress Check Back Often~~
--Session--
 --What We Will Do in Class--
 --What You Need To Have Done Before Coming to Class--
Class 1
Tues. 1/22
Excel
Multiple Measures of Data
  1. Sit at horizontal team tables
  2. Contacted student through email (PDF file under Class 1 assignments) and provided them with assignments (buy textbook, read syllabus, think about Book Talk choices, bring digital copy of philosophy paper).
  3. Create a wordle or a tagxedo graphic of your EDU 581 philosophy paper and post the URL to artifacts page
  4. Sharing of graphic philosophy
  5. Course overview/Syllabus/snow day process/Skype Buddy Program/did contact data change since last semester?
  6. Look ahead at dates for Book Talk presentations and work session. Select Book Talk teams.
  7. Required software (make sure your computer for this year has correct versions of Excel and Word)
  8. Map out the timeframe for teaching your integrated unit (student products must be finished before 4/9/13 )
  9. Data collection of a unit - assessment timeline
  10. Powerpoint Chapter 2
  11. Multiple Measures of Data Activity (ACTCreat.pdf page 2)
  12. Sharing interest and concerns of Chapters 1, 2 (3 is next week)
  13. Take Mid Survey
  14. Resources for practicing and learning Excel skills
  • Read: Syllabus
  • Read: Using Data to Improve Student Learning chapters 1, 2, 3 and be prepared to share a list of the things that interested or concerned you from your readings
  • Think about: Book Talk choices
  • Bring: digital copy of philosophy paper

EDU 584 Spring2013.pdf
Class 2
Tues.1/29
Demograhics
  1. Digital Learning Day--how will you celebrate?
  2. Date selection (4/9, 4/23) of student product presentations
  3. Learning styles inventory
  4. Discuss age-appropriate learning style inventories (find one and bring it to share next week)
  5. Downloading files from Victoria Bernhardt's CD
  6. Powerpoint Chapter 3 Slide 22
  7. Sharing interest and concerns of Chapter 3 (CSIPlang.pdf)
  8. Chapter 4 - Who Are We? Complete the three study questions at the end of the chapter in your individual teams. (Ch4Qs.pdf)
  9. Introducing the LPLC and the Curriculum Strand task
  10. Start searching for your district and school demographic data (paper handout)
    1. Resources for finding data
  11. Work session: Getting ready for Excel
  • Read: Using Data to Improve Student Learning chapter 4
  • Due: Align your unit assessment timeline to a calendar and bring to class.
  • Due: Take Mid Survey
  • Due: Feel comfortable with the basics of Excel; dust off your basic skills
  • WIP: Required software installed on your laptop
  • WIP: Reading your book.
Class 3
Tues. 2/5

Demograhics
  1. Sharing of Learning Style inventories
  2. In-Class work session: Demographic Profiles
    1. Resources for finding data
  3. Meet with your booktalk team -- Booktalk Checklist
  • Explore:Maine's Education Commissioner's Strategic Plan
  • Due: Required software installed on your laptop
  • Bring: Learning Style instrument(s) to share with your horizontal teams.
  • Bring: Demographic Data of your school
  • WIP: Reading your book.
  • WIP: LPLC and Curriculum Strand
Class 4
Tues. 2/12
Book Talk
  1. LPLC status and Curriculum Strand check-in
  2. Respect for intellectual property -- how is it taught at your school?
    1. Creative Commons Video
    2. Fair Use Guidelines
  3. Digital literacy, especially critical analysis of Internet sources--how is it taught at your school?
  4. InternetResourceEvalTLOver5.doc
  5. Status of your School Data Profile (including Excel Document)--cleaning up the profile; clarifying questions; renumbering the Figures; completing the study questions at the end
  6. In-Class Work Session: book talk teams
  • Due: Finish reading your book and bring ideas for your book talk presentation
  • Due: Post the Learning Style Inventory on the artifacts wiki that you plan to use
  • WIP: School Data Profile
  • WIP: LPLC and Curriculum Strand
(2/19)
 Winter Break for UMF and Public Schools -- No Class This Week
Class 5
Tues. 2/26
Perception
  1. Book talk presentation (1) Heather, Walter, and Don
  2. Chapter 5 - How Do We Do Business?
  3. Surveying (Student, Staff and Parents) Institutional Review Board (IRB)
  4. In-Class work session to start your perception survey - Design student perception survey for your integrated unit - feedback will be completed in class; add to your assessment timeline
  5. Quick chat about Chapter 6 - Research terms and Reporting category.
  • Read: Using Data to Improve Student Learning chapter 5
  • Due: Book talk presentation - Change Process -- Change Leader -
  • WIP: LPLC and Curriculum Strand
  • WIP: School Data Profile
Class 6
Tues. 3/5
Student Learning
  1. Book talk presentations (1) Tanya and Jessica
  2. Explore wiki-like tools to determine one that you will use for your resource wiki
  3. Learning Data Profile - School Student Learning Data Profile (El/MS grade level); use your NECAP State Data Summary Report; (HS) use your SAT State Data Summary Report.
  • Due: School Data Profile & Excel Document - upload your documents on the class wiki
  • Due: Book talk presentations Data-Driven Decision Making -- Results -Tanya and Jessica
  • Read: Using Data to Improve Student Learning chapter 6
  • Due: Book talk response - Change Process - Walter, Heather, and Don
  • Due: Determination of LPLC and selection of Curriculum Strand: Three or more colleagues in your local educational community who will partner with you to create a Local Professional Learning Community. If you are already part of a LPLC, determine a way that you can enhance what already exists.
  • As a leader, work with the LPLC to identify a curriculum strand that needs improvement or enhancement OR present your findings to your LPLC of a curriculum strand that should be targeted after reviewing sate and national standards
  • Gather: pdf file of School Summary Reports
    • Elementary (NECAP) 2011-2012, 2010-2011, 2009-2010
    • Middle (NECAP) 2011-2012, 2010-2011, 2009-2010
    • High (SAT) 2011-2012, 2010-2011, 2009-2010
  • WIP: Administer your questionnaire to your students after the integrated unit is completed.
Class 7
Tues. 3/12

School Process
  1. Book talk presentations (1) Karl and Eleni
  2. Share Drafts of Student Perception Survey
  3. Google Docs - Forms
  4. Student products check-in
  5. Chapter 6 -Where Are We Now?
  6. Chapter 7 - What are the Gaps and What Are the Root Causes of the Gaps? These are the details for PLC to explore and to determine the resource needs to assist in student learning.
  7. Chapter 8 - How Can We Get to Where We Want to Be? Notice the observable and measurable aspects of the plan in Figure 8.1
  8. Resource Wiki Project
  9. Work-session to continue Learning Data Profile (screen shot portion)- School Student Learning Data Profile (El/MS grade level); use your NECAP State Data Summary Report (2 years); select one reporting category to include in the profile. (HS) use your SAT State Data Summary Report (3 years); select one reporting category to include in the profile.
  10. From now until April 30, work with colleagues in your LPLC and work on Resource Wiki Project.
Class 8
Tues. 3/19
  1. Book talk presentations (1) Maryam and Jason
  2. Chapter 9 (MS/HS)/10(Elem) - Conclusions and Recommendations
  3. Discussion Demographics, Student Perception, and Student Learning data of your class.
  4. Build (or finish building) spreadsheet for gathering/entering demographic data on your students in your class from your integrated unit (gender, ethnicity, free & reduced lunch, identified disability, ELL, G/T, Title IA, learning styles and grade level if appropriate).
  5. Classroom Profile (Demographic) document and Excel File
  6. In-class work session - Start Classroom Profile. Analyze (count, percentage) demographic data of your class and create the Demographic section (including charts/tables, graphs, and narratives) of your Classroom Profile
    Classroom Profile Checklist.docx
  7. Build spreadsheet for gathering student learning data related to your integrated unit and discuss correlation.
  8. Student learning data of your unit. Off campus work session.
  9. Questions - Resource Wiki project...how will you organize your resources
  • Due: Book talk presentations 21st Century Thinking -- Out of Our Minds -- Maryam and Jason
  • Due: Book talk response - Professional Learning Community - Karl and Eleni
  • Read: Using Data to Improve Student Learning chapter 9 for MS and HS, chapter 10 for elementary
  • Due: Gather at least ten web resources that specifically address the target curriculum strand.
  • Due: School Student Learning Data Profile - upload your document on the class wiki
  • Due: Post your perception survey (a file or a link) to the artifacts wiki
  • Due: Gather class demographics (where possible without violating FERPA total number of students in class, grade level,gender, ethnicity, free & reduced lunch, identified disability, ELL, G/T, Title IA, learning styles--start putting the information in a spreadsheet and start to create your Class Data Profile
  • Due:​ Determine a wiki-like tool that you think you might use for your resource wiki
  • WIP: Administer your questionnaire to your students after the integrated unit is completed.
Class 9
Tues. 3/26
 Site Conference -- Individual Work Time (Off Campus)

  1. Off campus work session
    1. Add to Classroom Profile. Analyze (averages, totals) student learning data of your unit for your class and start to create the Student Learning section (including charts/tables, graphs, and narratives) of your Classroom Profile (started in class last week).
    2. Work on Resource Wiki.
  • Due: Book talk response - 21st Century Thinking Maryam and Jason - Email it to us.
  • Read: Article on Why School?: How Education Must Change When Learning and Information Are Everywhere
  • WIP: Gather your unit data -- formative and summative data from your integrated unit to use in your classroom profile.
  • WIP: Resource Wiki
  • WIP: Administer your questionnaire to your students after the integrated unit is completed.
(4/2)
 Spring Break for UMF -- No Class This Week
  • Read: Articleon Why School?: How Education Must Change When Learning and Information Are Everywhere. Write: A reflective piece on how you feel this is going to change what you do. Post in your Blog due 4/9.
  • WIP: Continue to gather your unit data -- formative and summative data from your integrated unit
Class 10
Tues. 4/9
  1. Presentation of student products - (15 min. each) Heather, Karl, Jessica, Walter, Tanya
  2. Clarifying Questions Classroom Profile (Demographic, Student Learning) document and Excel File
  3. Calculating correlation (*big disclaimer here) and graphing correlation in Excel

  4. In-class work session
  • Analyze (count, percentage, correlations, etc.) your student perception questionnaire results and create the Perceptions section (including charts, graphs, and narratives) of your Classroom Profile
    • Use Google Docs Form, create survey, input data and create the summary report.
  • Process - UbD and Type II Technology
  • Draw conclusion (what are the gaps and root causes) make recommendations using the chart
    Classroom Profile Analysis Chart.docx
4. In-class resource wiki work session Resource Wiki Project
  • Due: First round of student products
  • Due: Your unit data -- formative and summative data from your integrated unit
  • Due: Bring your student perception questionnaire results.
  • Due: The demographic and student learning portions of your Classroom Profile should be done (but not the student perception portion)
  • Due: Check your assessment timeline on the EDU 583 artifacts page and update it to reflect your best unit.
  • WIP: Resource Wiki
(4/16)
 April Break for Public Schools -- No Class This Week
Class 11
Tues. 4/23
  1. Presentation of student products - (15 min. each) Maryam, Don, Jason
  2. Reflection on teaching of integrated unit - post on Blog and use the collaboration label.
  3. Final Reflection Statement
  4. Use Resource Wiki Project Rubric to self-evaluate your Resource Wiki.
  5. In-class work session
    1. Updating your Integrated Unit Plan to reflect improvements, notes, changes, etc.
    2. Wiki Resource Project
  6. Evaluation Document - Create a zip file of the following five documents.
  • School Data Profile
  • School Student Learning Data Profile
  • Classroom Profile (demographics, student learning, perception data Process and Conclusion)
  • Integrated Unit Plan (Word document? multiple wiki pages?--integrated unit planner, stage 1, stage 2, and stage 3)
  • Assessment Timeline (.pdf of the wiki page)
Class 12
Tues. 4/30
  1. Presentation of student products - (15 min. each) Eleni
  2. Statistical significance and correlation
  3. Caution about correlationreminder, and how can you have "negative" gender correlation?
  4. Reminder about zip file of Evaluation Documents; note that it's not a Word document but 4 .pdf files from last semester's wiki plus the other pieces described above
  5. Share resource wikis
  6. Technology Site
  7. Back up wiki to a zip file.
  8. MyCampus Test password for TK20
  9. Upload Resource Wiki Project wiki zip file and URL to TK20
    Student Instructions Updated TK20 Fall2010.doc
  10. Discuss 'Celebration?' for next class
  11. Poster Session for Cohort 4: May 4, 9:30-11:00, Ed Center Lobby
  12. Update your technology log for EDU 580.
  • Due: Resource wiki - Post link on artifacts page of class wiki and self-assess your Resource Wiki Project using the rubric and bring the hard copy to class.
  • Due: Reflection on teaching of integrated unit - Post on Blog and use the collaboration label.
  • Due: Finalized Integrated Unit Plan
Class 13
Tues. 5/7
  1. Follow-Up Survey
  2. Double check TK20 & uploaded evaluation documents to class wiki
  3. UMF Action-Research
  4. Share final reflection
  5. Plus-Delta
  6. UMF evaluation